There's no over / under for Wilson, but oddsmakers are expecting 37.5
rushing yards from Newton.
Meanwhile, the Titans only managed to score 16 points at home against the Raiders, including just 69 combined
rushing yards from DeMarco Murray and Derrick Henry.
The Huskies, in just their fourth season in Division I - A, got 166
rushing yards from sophomore tailback Terry Caulley and held Hoosiers quarterback Matt LoVecchio, a Notre Dame transfer, to 211 passing yards.
Not exact matches
That young redbud tree delicately budding in my front
yard in early spring, that golden haze in which the rolling hills close to my home are bathed on a summer morning, that lovely pond on my walk home
from work out of whose
rushes a red - winged blackbird almost invariably flies up as I pass by in early autumn, that winter belt of trees across the street transformed by an ice storm into a glittering fairyland — all those beauties of which nature is so achingly and serendipitously full are likewise my modest sources of healing and renewal.
As we pull away
from the school
yard, I catch one last glimpse of Alinda, the words of Jesus come
rushing to my mind:
He accounted for 49.2 % of the Hilltoppers» offense with 1,879
yards from scrimmage and had 15
rushing touchdowns.
His 13 -
yard rush was just short, but on the next play he punched it in
from 1 -
yard out.
Only one 1,000 -
yard rusher from last year returns — Cincinnati's Isaiah Pead — though Louisville's Victor Anderson gained 1,047
yards in 2008 before being slowed by injuries....
In all, 11 of the league's 14 teams returned a vast majority of last year's passing
yards, nine returned at least half of their
rushing yards (10 if you include Missouri with the return
from injury of Henry Josey), and eight returned at least half of their offensive line starts.
31 - 17 is deceptive, since only Jeff Driskel's 177
rushing yards on 11 carries pulled Florida away
from Vanderbilt.
For edge
rushers trying to turn the corner, that means they need to get around the offensive tackle as tightly as possible, around that seven to eight
yards of depth to make sure that the quarterback can't step up away
from their
rush.
He almost always jumped the snap (which also led to some offsides penalties), and yet even with his really good pass -
rush technique he still wasn't able to turn the corner tightly at less than nine
yards from the line of scrimmage most of the time.
The paradox was that certain things were so easy — Dorsett didn't even start for the Cowboys until the 10th game of his rookie year, but he still set team records for most
rushing touchdowns in a season, longest run
from scrimmage and most
yards in a game — while other things were so hard.
His 2,370
yards from scrimmage were the second most in an NFL season (Marshall Faulk had 2,430 with the St. Louis Rams in 1999), and he became the first player ever to
rush for 1,000
yards and catch 100 passes in the same year.
After riding Justice Hill all the way down the field — the sophomore is up to 208
rushing yards for the day after 13, 34, and eight
yards — OSU throws it on first - and - goal
from the 3 for some reason.
The Broncos mustered just 15
rushing yards, and the return of starting quarterback Brett Rypien
from a head injury he suffered in a heartbreaking loss to Washington State did not lend the offense much more consistency through the air.
Rams» blocker paved the way for more than 3,000
rushing yards and is still weighing offers
from multiple Pac - 12 and Big West schools.
LSU had loaded up on big plays — a 100 -
yard kickoff return by Leonard Fournette, a 75 -
yard pass
from Anthony Jennings to John Diarse, an 89 -
yard rush by Fournette * — while Notre Dame had ground out long touchdown drives: 15 plays and 66
yards, 11 plays and 75
yards, 10 plays and 59
yards.
On the other sideline, you can wager on all things Deshaun Watson, ranging
from the number of passes he throws (the over / under is 36.5), his total
rushing yards (56.5), or whether or not he'll hit that two passing touchdown mark -LRB--160).
The drive chart
from the Texans second quarter touchdown says it for you: 18 -
yard pass to Kevin Walter, 7 -
yard pass to James Casey, 8 -
yard rush by Foster, 21 -
yard rush by Foster and...
Nebraska's defense forced four turnovers, ran back two interceptions for touchdowns (Wistrom's plus Minter's,
from 84
yards out), blocked a punt and limited Michigan State to 83
yards on 49
rushing attempts.
Shanahan has a history of turning middle - and low - round picks (Davis, Olandis Gary, Anderson, recently dealt Reuben Droughns) into 1,000 -
yard rushers, and he has seen things he likes
from the 234 - pound Clarett.
As a true freshman in 2008, Baylor's slashing, scrambling quarterback led the Bears with 13
rushing touchdowns and passed or ran for 65 % of their
yards from scrimmage.
The Panthers won't deviate
from their productive run - first attack; last year Jonathan Stewart (1,133
yards, 10 touchdowns) and DeAngelo Williams (1,117
yards, seven TDs) became the first pair of backs on the same team to surpass 1,100
rushing yards in a season.
The Falcons
rushed for 124
yards as a team, 66 of them coming
from Devonta Freeman.
But the best performances might come
from the Horned Frogs themselves: 18 starters return, including Andre Davis, who
rushed for 867
yards in» 93.
Washington has beaten teams like New England and the Indianapolis Colts by riding back Terry Allen (852
rushing yards), turning the ball over a league - low eight times, scoring on all 23 chances in the red zone and getting production
from pass -
rushing tackle Sean Gilbert.
From 2009 to 2012, he had at least 1,143
yards rushing and 1,621 total
yards in four straight seasons.
UCLA attempts balance but leans a bit on the run, and it's worked out well: sophomore Paul Perkins is one of the nation's most underrated backs,
rushing for 1,172
yards (6.2
yards per carry, 6.1 highlight
yards per opportunity) and taking hits away
from quarterback Brett Hundley (107 carries, 725
yards).
Instead, he has just 344
rushing yards and is averaging 3.3
yards per carry, a stark drop
from last year's 5.1 average.
The sophomore
from Cleveland had an up - and - down debut season: he
rushed 11 times for 102
yards against Elon in his first game, averaged 3.2
yards per carry over the next four games, exploded for 8.7 per carry for the next five games, then slumped back to 4.6 for the last four.
The team committed three turnovers (including two interceptions
from Jay Cutler) and allowed 193
yards rushing.
Even with Ryan only
rushing four or fewer for the majority of the game, his secondary still couldn't cover 5 -
yard out routes
from the slot or quick crossing routes over the middle.
As a result, the Raiders went
from sixth in the NFL in scoring to 23rd, and they
rushed for nearly 25 fewer
yards per game.
The Williams thumbnail: Kicked off UConn's team in 2013 for stealing a teammate's credit card and using it... enrolled in a tiny Brooklyn college trying to get his football career back... enrolled at Utah in 2015... Quit Utah's team in September 2016, telling head coach Kyle Whittingham he couldn't deal with the mental pressure he was going through... Returned to the team at the coaches» request a month later when three backs got injured... After a month away
from any physical activity, he ran for 179
yards against Oregon State, and then, in his second game, he set the Rose Bowl stadium record for a college running back,
rushing for 332
yards and four touchdowns in a Utah win over UCLA.
He was assisted by 102
yards rushing from Ronnie Hillman, and another 59
yards rushing from C.J. Anderson.
Manning gets almost no help on the ground
from a
rushing attack that averages just 91.3
yards per game.
But 17 unanswered points in the last 10 minutes of regulation tied the game, and a 2 -
yard touchdown
rush from Alex Smith gave the Kansas City Chiefs a 33 - 27 win.
Riggins
rushed for 166
yards — a record at the time — but this touchdown came
from the most important 43
yards of the day.
Ty Isaac, who earned Offensive Player of the Week against Florida after
rushing for 114 -
yards, earned some heaving praise
from Jim Harbaugh:
It won't be easy for him, as a backup, to top his
rushing total
from 2014, but I'm betting he will be able to best his
yards per carry average of 3.6 per.
I alltime
rushing record with 6,397
yards at Wisconsin
from 1996 to» 99.
Frampton, who
rushed for 2,345
yards last season in leading St. Mary's to the CIF Division I state title game, didn't have the best SPARQ rating of the day, but no other running back came close and it was the best SPARQ rating among any of the players
from California.
«Quarterback Jeremy Steinman, who seemed to disappear
from the Ashland offense on a night when both Boekenoogen and Kacy Curtis
rushed for more than 100
yards, made perhaps the biggest play.»
He
rushes four times for 12
yards, eventually scoring
from a
yard out (with help
from his lineman).
In that North - South Shrine Game, however, the North won 32 - 0 behind Herm Urenda
from Liberty - Brentwood, who
rushed for two TDs and 101
yards.
Owls running back Devin Singletary is 204
rushing yards away
from 2,000 on the season, and Akron is 99th in the country in
rushing yards allowed per game (197.2).
Marion Grice, a junior
from Houston, scored three
rushing touchdowns and
rushed for 107 of ASU's 305 total
rushing yards for the game.
New England finally got into the end zone on a 1 -
yard rush from James White to narrow the Jaguars» lead to 14 - 10 at the half.
On the game - winning drive Westbrook, battling severestomach cramps
from the second quarter on,
rushed four times for 34
yards — «He reminds me of myself when I was young,» the Giants» retiringTiki Barber would say in defeat — while Garcia completed both of his passes for13
yards.